thank you bohocmansi, you weren't expected to test 1.9.92. It was a safety version in case my op had problems so another could take over without starting again from square 1, however just about everything has been fixed and i'm home and back at it again. Marvelous what is done nowadays using keyhole surgery and the short time (6hrs) from admittance to discharge.

However, back to 1.9.92. I have so far found over 100 missing links and incomplete or incorrect paths as far as puppy is concerned. Like barry has done with wary/racy at least, I shall be creating a zz-puppy-mage2.pet type file to address the problems and allow both mageia and puppy core packages to run together. However I shall also be creating a number of puppyied mage2 cutdown replacements as there are quite a number of packages where we in the puppy world only need two or three of the libs and not the 20+ lib files in the package.

Another reason we need so many as mageia 2 has kept existing structures when updating core components and major package releases, rather than using the package standards. I am hoping they can be convinced to fix and use these 'standard' locations for mageia 3, else the only packages that will happily run on their system are their own.

I hope that I shall release the next and real first alpha in about a fortnight.

thanks darkcity, i'm almost back to normal and still improving, don't have to see the surgeon for three months so he must think i'm ok now.

Anyway, an Alpha release is now available for testing. See the first page for details.

And just a short note on qt5 vs qt4.

Qt4 follows the old local machine or a server location for an application and resources, qt5 expects the application to live in a 'cloud' environment by default. Very different.
Also I was told that qt5 will be in a Alpha/Beta/Release cycle for quite a while before settling down yet, big parts of it haven't even been written/coded yet and the initial release will have quite a bit of qt4 code in qt5 wrappers. It does use Qt Quick as it's primary IDE though so new players should find it very easy to work with.

Hi Gnuxo - I just downloaded qupzilla from the link you posted and it downloaded as a .gz file which did nothing, so I tried renaming it by removing the .gz suffix and replacing it with .pet - which installed fine. Will give qupzilla a whirl.

Well, it boots.
Live pfix=ram, mage2-1.9.83 booted to a incorrect resolution (1280x1024)....used xorgwizard to choose the "nouveau" driver and X wouldn't start. Reverted to the "nv" driver and got the desired 1366x768 resolution.Nvidia 7025 onboard graphics. Sound and internet were working on initial boot.

sys-info-120717.tar.gz is attached...... just rename to sys-info-120717.gz (had to rename for forum to accept).

I did a manual frugal install.
I installed the devx, the only driver that would work is vesa at a low
resolution.
I installed the zz_mage2_fixup-20120711.pet
Viewnoir wouldn't start, hardinfo is not working correctly, seamonkey
working okay.
I had no problem compiling certain programs but others wouldn't
compile showing missing libs etc.
Htop only shows 5 cores on this pc which has 8 cores, it shows all of
the memory.
I added the mageia-2 repos and updated them in ppm, I installed a
newer version of geany in ppm (0.20)
That's it so far.

I had thought I had fixed viewnior as it had a number of dependancies. Did it not start for you, or only a particular part not work as expected? Mageia doesn't use it and i've used a puppy one that barry uses, I shall have to look deeper or rebuild it from scratch.

Hardinfo was ok for me and all my primary testers in all cases, is it the same thing james is having?, can you list your problems with it and attach a hardinfo from another puppy and i'll see if I can sort it out.

I suspect your video driver may be to blame with the screen, try a manual xorgwizard from the prompt and see what you get, you may have to download a driver to get your own from the mageia non-free repositry as mageia has a policy of only including totally free drivers by default and I must follow that to use their base. If nothing shows as driver and settings on the final screen, that was the problem I mentioned appearing once but could not duplicate so all extra info is welcome.

I did warn there would be problems with apps, as a lot of puppy apps use older libraries than mageia 2 uses and need links added, I know, as i've created over a hundred to get the base working, run a search for the name only and add the symlink (not relative) to the base lib into your package build. Mageia apps should be ok, though ocassionally it needs an extra mageia lib or two installed as they have sometimes split libs into smaller 'chunks' than we have.

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